Re: What's the latest thinking of the best two or three webdevelopment languages/environ...

On 8-Aug-08, at 12:04 PM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

That was a pretty bold statement about Net.Data being on its way out -

what/who is your source for that?

Observation.

even now - that it is not going anywhere soon.

Not to play on your words, but that is exactly my point. It is going
nowhere. When is the next release coming out? What features are going to
be in it?

I agree with Aaron.

Net.data has been withdrawn on all other IBM platforms and has not been enhanced on "i" in a long time. As someone else has noted, the only support person in IBM spends most of his time on other products. To start a new project with it today seems to me the equivalent of starting to develop a new application on Windows '98 - it still works but ...

There have been efforts to provide a Net.data -> PHP conversion tool. Don't know what the current status of that is (perhaps Mike P can comment) but my suspicion is that IBM will announce an end to support not long after such a tool becomes available.

Jon Paris

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